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Epicycles is lean, quiet and seamless Planning, Scheduling and Profitability.

 

The Principle

The Business is more important than the software.

Software supporting Planning and Scheduling should be more simple to use and change than the Production and Sales Process itself.

Rate Based Planning

Production Rate reflects reality better than order quantity on due date.

Rate Based Planning creates the missing link between Materials Requirements Planning and Just In Time / Lean Manufacturing with a quieter system.

Social Processes

Planning and Scheduling are a continuous negotiation not a computer transaction.

Lean and Simple

Fewer re-usable concepts leads to simpler, leaner, more functional, software.

Keep the focus on the business, not IT.

Rolling Horizon

Different business function, different detail, different time periods, same software functions, no software barriers.

Plan and schedule in decades or seconds or anything in between. Change with a single mouse click, and again, and again, ......

Levels of Detail

Closer to production and delivery time, greater the detail.

Progressively add detail for one or more levels of Process to Operation, Product Group to Product, Sales Area to Customer, Shipping Type to Vessel or Truck, etc. its all the same to us!

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